Ironing board



Feb. 19 1924.; 1,484,592

M. VARLAND IRONING BOARD Filed Feb. 13 1923 Patented Feb. 18, 122%.

MARTIN VARLAND, E RADCLIFFE, 1011? A.

ITELONING BOAR-D.

Application filed February 13, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that MARTIN VARLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Radeliffe, in the county of Hardin and State of Iowa, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing Boards, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in ironing boards of that type which are adapted to be applied to the edge of a table or the like article of furniture and the invention resides in a novel construction of the pivot between the board and its supporting leg wherein a nice adjustment through a wide range is had whereby to adapt the board to tables or supports of various thicknesses.

Other objects of the invention are to simplify the construction to economize on the cost of devices of this kind and to renderthe ironing board and its supporting leg more rigid in use and generally more durable and stronger.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a fragmentary section through a table showing the improved ironing board in place-thereon.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the table and adjacent parts of the ironing board and its supporting leg, and

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pivot block and its clamping plate.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 5 designates a table top and 6 one of the supporting legs. The improved ironing board is represented at 7 and its supporting leg at 8.

To the bottom of the ironing board 7 are attached as by the use of nails or other fastenings a pair of cleats 8. These cleats extend for a considerable distance longitudinally of the board and they serve to reinforce the board and to protect the leg 8 when in its collapsed position because of the fact that Serial No. 618,797.

the leg is received between said cleats. This is indicated in Figure The leg 8 is rovided with an intermediate enlarged part and with an enlarged head 10 having its under side cut away, as at 11, to receive the edge of the table top 5. The head 10 is recessed, as at 12, and received therein is a cross strip 13 to the lower face of which is glued or otherwise secured a felt or other pad 14: adapted to come into contact with the top surface of the table 5 to prevent marring. The strip 13 may be of any desired length in order to give a suitable purchase upon the table top and in Fig. 2 said strip is shown to extend considerably to opposite sides of the head 10.

The board 7 is provided with a slot 15 to receive the headed end of the legs 8. The end 16 of the slot 15 is beveled in order to form a stop or abutment for the lee when in the operative position shown in Figures 1 and 3. The cleats 8 are enlarged downwardly where the pivot 17 passes therethrough. The intermediate part of the pivot 17 engages through a block 18 having corrugated or roughened opposite faces to take into the toothed or ribbed mutual face of the plate 19 fixedly secured in the roof of a slot 20 made through the enlarged part 9 of the leg, and a clamping plate 21 movably mounted in the lower portion of the same slot 20 and urged toward the block 18, as by the use of the set screw 22 which is accessible for ad justment upon the outside of the leg. The set screw 22 is threaded through a nut or bushing 23 seated in the recess 24 at the base of the slot 20 and centrally beneath the block 18. The thrust of the set screw 22 therefore takes place directly beneath the block 18 and both the clamping plate 21 and the block 18 are moved thereby against the upper fixed plate 19. The interfitting ribs and teeth serve to hold the leg and board in adjusted position, but by backing ofi the set screw 22 the leg 8 may be shifted longitudinally with respect to the board 7, and such adjustment either increases or diminishes the space between the slotted end of the board and the head 10.

In this way differences in thicknesses of table tops or supports are compensated for. Strips of felt 25 are secured to the slotted end of the ironing board and engaged beneath the table top.

In the use of the device the leg is made to assume the diagonal position shown in Figures l and 3 and the felts 1e and 25 grip upper and lower faces of the table top. In this position the weight of the board 7 serves to support it and the outer end of the board is entirely free of any support whatsoever. It is therefore an easy matter to insert shirts or skirts over the board and they may be removed after ironing with equally little difliculty. he use of the metallic plates 19 and 21 and of the nut or bushing protects the Wood of which the leg is made.

' When not in use the leg is folded between the cleats 8 and a substantially flat structure results which may be placed against the wall and occupies but a small spacc.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above spc- *ifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claim What is claimed is 7 An ironing board comprising a board member having a slotted end to fit beneath the edge of a support, parallel spaced cleats fixed beneath the slotted end of the board, a pivot secured in said cleats, a roughened block swingingly carried by'saidpivot, a leg having a slot near one end to slidably receive the block, a plate having a corrugated surface to engage with one face of the block fixed in said slot at one side, a clamping plate with aribbed surface in the slot at the other side of the block, means to urge the clamping plate against the block, and a head on the leg received through the slotted end of the board and having a long strip to overlie the support and a cut-away part adjoining the head to receive the edge of the support. 7 V V p In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

MARTIN VARLAND. 

